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Geometry Playground - Activity: Fitting Circles

Author(s): 
Daniel Heath (Pacific Lutheran University) and Joshua Jacobs (University of Washington)

This activity explores the idea of area in the Inverted model of the Euclidean plane, as well as in Spherical and Hyperbolic geometry.  The authors would like to thank Ksenija Simic-Muller, who contributed this activity.

Click here to open the Geometry Playground applet in a new window.

Click here to open a pdf file which contains the instructions for the activity.

Daniel Heath (Pacific Lutheran University) and Joshua Jacobs (University of Washington), "Geometry Playground - Activity: Fitting Circles," Convergence (November 2010), DOI:10.4169/loci003567